Secrets of Princess Diana's fashion story

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Princess Diana is a style icon - an unlikely destiny for a woman reputed to own only four outfits when she became engaged to Prince Charles.The story of how she transformed from a teenager who loved to borrow clothes from family and friends into a fashion inspiration is told in the Diana: Her Fashion Story exhibition at Kensington Palace.Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper and Daily Mirror style director Amber Graafland were lucky enough to be given a private guided tour by assistant curator Isabella Coraça.Join them as they walk through the exhibition for a fascinating insight into Diana’s style and how effectively she used her fashion choices to orchestrate her public image.The exhibition also explores the close relationship Diana developed with her favourite designers though original fashion sketches. Highlights include the Victor Edelstein gown Diana famously wore at the White House when she danced with John Travolta and a Versace dress worn in 1991 for a portrait taken by Patrick Demarchelier that was later featured on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar following her untimely death in 1997.The exhibition runs until February 17. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:05.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:09.0	I'm your host Anne Gripper and I am in Kensington Park with our style director Amber Graffland.
0:16.0	Hello.
0:17.0	We've come for an early morning trip to Kensington Palace for a bit of a behind the scenes
0:22.0	tour of their current exhibition about Princess Diana.
0:24.8	So we've just walked up from Kensington High Street, past Mahiki.
0:28.1	The joggers are out.
0:29.1	The joggers are out.
0:30.1	We've worked out why exactly Mahiki is the favorite nightclub of the Royals because it is right on their doorstep.
0:34.6	Yeah. The sun is just coming up and it's lovely and we are going to go talk and see the clothes of well the women who during her life was basically the most
0:45.2	famous women in the world yeah and to put it into context I think what's so
0:48.8	interesting is when I look back at my early career I spent pretty much a decade writing about Diana because we didn't
0:55.0	have reality TV. The celebrity world was much smaller. If you were writing about a famous person
0:59.7	they were either in a Hollywood movie or they were in a band or they were a supermodel.
1:04.1	They were Naomi Campbell, Christie Tirlington.
1:06.4	And of course the biggest icon of all was Diana.
1:08.7	So for 10 years, pretty much the media was completely obsessed with her and of course fashion played such a big
1:14.4	role in her life.
1:15.4	And is it surprising that she became such a fashion icon from her sort of early very innocent days
1:21.3	when she kind of first appeared.
1:23.0	Well that's I think is what's so interesting and that's why everyone fell in love with her
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